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even of the hand, often restores a chicken, 

 when apparently dead. And whatever be the 

 treatment in case of disease, the patient must 

 be removed from the yard : for, strange to 

 say, the other fowls invariably illuse those 

 which are ill, and not unfrequently peck them 

 to death. 



Disease in the feet is often caused by the 

 fowls descending from high perches. Though 

 they often ascend by means of a ladder, yet 

 they iici'er use it in their descent ; hence the 

 necessity of having the perches placed near the 

 ground. The feet of young turkeys are in- 

 jured by treading on nettles. 



It may be supposed that something should 

 be said about the quantity as well as the 

 (juality of food required for a given num- 



ber of fowls. This might easily have been 

 done, but we imagine that it would be pro- 

 ductive of no good results. A very little ex- 

 perience will shew the attentive henwife the 

 (juantity requisite. Should she at first err, as 

 it is likely she will, on the side of jDrofusion, 

 the wasted food will disclose her error, and 

 leadher to give in future more stinted supplies. 

 Should the opposite error be made, the mis- 

 take will be even more readily discovered. 

 Her feathered dependents will have no diffi- 

 culty in conveying to her a sense of their 

 wants, nor will their eager look be misunder- 

 stood or neglected, by the faithful henwife, 

 whose happiness it ever is to anticipate the 

 wants and minister to the necessities of her 

 confiding flock. 



